The Quest of Isaac O'Connor [Unfinished]

You lunge forward and jab a spike of spectral energy into the spirit. It vaporizes as soon as you withdraw your spectral energy, leaving you and the two remaining spirits. The barrier around you shatters as the spirit that created it realizes that you are now safe.

"Thank you for helping us!" it says.

"Of course! And I'm sorry that four of your friends got killed," you say.

The spirits now look sad, remembering their fallen comrades.

"Now, we can't play our game," one says. "We don't have enough spirits."

You look over at the mushroom spirit, who has been on the outskirts of the barrier this whole time. You suddenly get a great idea.

"Why don't you play with that spirit over there?" you say.

The two spirits look at the mushroom spirit, who they hadn't realized was there. They grin.

"Yeah, let's play a new game with that spirit!" one says, and they bound over to it, content to play for now.

The Scepter is now free for you to take. Mission accomplished, you put it in your backpack and head back to the fork in the road. Which way do you go next?